Matthew Niederhauser

Matthew is an artist, photojournalist, and cinematographer based out of Beijing and New York City. His work delves into urban development and notions of cultural progress through a variety of mediums including photography, video, and installation. His images of China have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, and Foreign Policy, amongst many others. Matthew continues to concentrate on two projects entitled “Counterfeit Paradises” and “Kapital Creation.” These are his main outlets for exploring China’s rapid socioeconomic changes.

Matthew Neiderhauser is a photographer and artist whose work is influenced by his studies in anthropology. He lived in Beijing for six years and recently returned to the United States. His pictorial book Sound Kapital, published in 2009, documented...

Stills from the production Kapital Creation, a new film by photographer Matthew Neiderhauser and filmmaker John Fitzgerald. In the winter of 2014 the two launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the final stages of production.{node, 5079}

In the late 1990s, the visual arts in China operated on the fringes of society, and those who dared to flirt with public prominence risked finding themselves on the disapproving end of a government clampdown. And yet how different things seem today...

This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are delighted to host Matthew Niederhauser. A photographer focusing on urban development in China, Matthew has been published in various journals including The New Yorker, National Geographic, The...